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Old 02-03-2009 | 08:06 AM
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Default RE: I'm making the Stinger again

The fuselage is out of the molds and the video is made and uploaded to YouTube.

A multi-part series of the making of a model airplane fiberglass fuselage (called the Stinger Q-40) - Part 7 – Removing the fuselage from the mold

[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vFSQHVN8ME[/link]

I will post Part 6 when I get time. It is just the second try at the join, finishing the seams, and putting the screws in the molds. If you saw the end of Part 5, you saw the process for the most part. Part 6 may have some useful commentary about the joining and seams though.

Making the videos was a little extra work, but a number of people have never seen a full lay-up with wet lapped seams.

Let me know how you liked the videos. Is this kind of stuff something you would like to see more of? I have some real time saving techniques for shaping balsa tail surfaces using a $70 belt sander that I could do a video on. And I could do composite part lay-ups as well. I have male molds for a V-tail I made the molds for Dave Norman for and the price for a set of females is much more reasonable than CNC cut molds.